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Fenner Road, GREAT YARMOUTH, NR30 3PX

Opened in 1819, ten years after Dublin, and built by a grateful county the Norfolk naval Pillar would have rivalled the later pillar in Trafalgar Square had extra cost of piling the foundations in the soft sand not led to a reduction in height. The column is surmounted by Britannia who looks off to the west-northwest in the direct of Nelson's birthplace at Burnham Thorpe. The column stands as a seamark and was to have been topped by a galley but Yarmouth Borough Council paid for the statue which has more emblematic symbols of the masonic grace Hope than Britannia, but then Nelson was known as Europe's Hope. Once she stood in the centre of an open links which was used as a racecourse for a few days each year. Today it is an area of empty factories and small workshops and offices.

The monument was paid for by the citizens of Norfolk in order to honour the county's hero. Great Yarmouth was chosen as the most appropriate site in the early 1800s. This site was the centre of naval and military activity in the town. Designs for the monument were chosen in 1815 and the building was completed in 1819, 24 years before Nelson's column in London. The monument is 144 feet high with 217 internal steps leading to the top section. The figure on top is Britannia, symbol of the spirit of Britain. Inscribed on each side of the monument are the names of Nelson's four ships: Vanguard, Captain, Elephant and Victory and his four great victories at St. Vincent, Aboukir (the Nile), Copenhagen and Trafalgar.

Built in 1817–19 as a memorial to Admiral Horatio Nelson, it was designated as a Grade I listed structure in 1953. The monument is 144 ft (44 m) high, compared to 169 ft (52 m) for the monument in Trafalgar Square and the top is reached by two hundred and seventeen steps.

Built in 1817–19 as a memorial to Admiral Horatio Nelson, it was designated as a Grade I listed structure in 1953. The monument is 144 ft (44 m) high, compared to 169 ft (52 m) for the monument in Trafalgar Square and the top is reached by two hundred and seventeen steps.

This is Norfolk's own memorial to one of its most famous persons - Admiral Lord Nelson. See http://www.nelsonsmonument.org.uk/history_monument.php for further details.

From the base of Nelson's monument, this is the view looking south along Fenner Road with South Denes power station in the distance - see Image The monument stands in a small enclosure and, rather incongruously, in the middle of an industrial estate.

Britannia on top of Britannia monument South Denes Great Yarmouth Norfolk. for full view see http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1097398 and for more info see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britannia_Monument

One of the plaques surrounding the monument. The monument stands in a small enclosure and, rather incongruously, in the middle of an industrial estate. The monument was erected in 1819 and is 144 feet (44 metres) high. The monument is listed, grade I, with details at: https://www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1246057

Britannia monument South Denes Great Yarmouth Norfolk. Britannia monument is its correct title built in 1819 as a memorial to Admiral Horatio Nelson. For close up view see http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1097407 and for more info see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britannia_Monument